Windsor Chairs

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Q: We believe we have a fan back Windsor chair. We inherited it from our grandparents. It has black paint that is flaking and worn, but the chair itself is sturdy and sound. Can you provide us with any information on this chair and its monetary value? The Windsor Locks Police Commission voted 5-0 Tuesday night to best interests of the police department and in the town as well," said Police Commission Chair Michael Royston. "It's a lot of money, but at this point, our options are limited." Dear Helaine and Joe: We believe we have a fan back Windsor chair. We inherited it from our grandparents. It has black paint that is flaking and worn, but the chair itself is sturdy and sound. Can you provide us with any information on this chair and its When Jim Van Hoven's building in St. Croix Falls, Wis., was a restaurant, cleaning up after hours meant vacuuming up potato chips. These days, at the Woodshop Featuring windsor chairs, Van Hoven cleans up wood chips. His building serves as gallery and But the two most famous companies were located in Massachusetts and were founded by Levi Heywood, who established a bentwood and Windsor chair factory in Gardner, Mass., in 1826, and Cyrus Wakefield, a grocer who established a factory to make wicker Finnish graduate Mikko Hannula based the design of this faceted metal chair on a 3D scan of a traditional wooden seat called a Windsor chair (+ slideshow). Hannula's Windsor 2.0 project explores how familiar objects can be updated using digital .

NEWARK – Bob Abel's passion for creating Windsor-style chairs took him by surprise. He had always worked with wood, having helped his father with little projects around the family's home growing up, but had never done anything serious with the medium. "Who cares?" Burton Pearl, for one, cares. He's the surgeon who bought the chair for $6,000 on Memorial Day weekend, thinking it was a Windsor chair built around 1780 or 1790. An 18th-century Windsor chair can sell for a high price. Charles Santore Aaron Scaturro, a 31-year-old self-taught woodworker, recently introduced a variation on the Windsor chair that he calls a fan-back dining chair. It takes two days to make, he said, and sells for $2,600. But that’s because of details the untrained eye Graceful and traditional, windsor chairs are uniform in construction from the seat down but varied above to create the chair’s different styles. Their defining trait is solid construction without a single nail or screw. The chair’s spindles .